Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-07

(. L. FONTAINE, Editor and Prop.
RAND RAPIDS WISCONSIN.
all wear pants REINFORCED by good buck
skin. They have a large job of sitting
ahead of them.
THERE may be nothing in name, but
two members of the California fish com.
mission are named respectively Fish and
Pike.
PATRICK WHITE adopted the Hebrew
faith Tuesday at Buffalo, was circumcised
few hours later, and married Lena Levi
young Jewess, Wednesday morning.
The special grand jury in the Chicago
criminal court reported twenty three ad-
ditional indictments of s'boodlers'' in
connection with the crooked operations
of the county board.
The list of members of the fftieth
Congress presently number of pres
Dental names. There is Wash
ington, an Adams, Taylor and Hayes.
Washington, who is from Tennessee,
will be the first of the name to sit in con-
gress.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is said to be
very fond of Colonel Lamont's children
and makes them always take dinner with
him in the big state dining room at the
white house. That is the next best thing
to having some children of his own.
CAPTAIN SAMUELs, Of the Danutless, as
scribes the defeat of that boat by the
Coronet to the interference of Mr.. Colt,
owner of the dauntless. Captain Samuels
and five of the crew have left the latter
yacht.
A FISHING steamer the "Eagle"-en
gagged in sealfshing and having $50 men
of New foundland. All on board are be-
lieved to have persisted.
British yachtsmen are still determined
to get the Americas cup, and will try for
it again this Summer. The race will be
more interesting than any of its predeces-
sors. Let the Thistle come on.
On the strength of the report that the
cholera in South America is extending
northward, and has already reached the
Isthmus of Panama, the city authorities
of Ell Pase, Tex, have established a
stringent quarantine.
CuNNEoTIUUr hos ton vA-Oouornors still
living, They are G. F. Cleveland, W. T.
Miner, A. FL. Holley, j. c. Hawley, j. E.
English, G. r. Ingersoll, G.. B. Andrews.
II. Is. Bigelow, t. NJ. Waller and Fl. B
Harrison. Connecticut's Governors
must be as durable as her wooden nut
megs.
The Kansas voting woman is'getting
to be too much, for the men. In the
to let women take all the offices and en-
tire control of affairs. The Mayor, mem
bers of Council, marshal and the city
officers are to be women. It's pretty toll
erabIy hard when it comes to that.
AND now the Microscopical Society of
San Francisco warns people that young
spring chickens are full of the germs of
consumption. The Microscopical So
ciety probably wants to bear the chicken
market in the hope of getting toothsome
broilers at reduced cost.
THE New York papers all had John Sui
livans return to pugilism, and regard his
latest set-to as evidence that his mighty
arm is as good as ever. John in this af-
fair knocked out John Taylor, but the
knocked out, and the performance was
the thinnest kind of hippodrome.
SIDNEY BARTLETT, one of Boston's best
known lawyers, is IS years old, yet his
bodily strength is little impaired, and
he is said never to have exhibited greater
intellectual vigor than in recent argu-
ment in an important case that he was
conducting. We have some old men in
America too.
The will of the late Captain James B
IL. al Sow rob 10
in the surrogate's court at New York.
The largest bequest outside his family.
is to janis Andrews, of Alleghaney, who
is to receive $4,000. To his widow ard
five daughters is left the greater portion
of $1,000 0Odue him from the government
for maintaining the jetties, the daughters
being enjoined to permit none of their
money to be invested in the business of